St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Abbey Court, Kelso is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 July 1980. Church. 1 related planning application.

St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Abbey Court, Kelso

WRENN ID
solitary-pilaster-rain
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 July 1980
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Robert Rowand Anderson, 1868-9; porch enlarged 1890; geometric Gothic, bull-faced coursed rubble with yellow freestone dressings;

4 bay aisled nave with a single two-light decorated window between buttresses per bay at the aisles and paired circular clerestory windows. At the west end of the south aisle a gabled porch, 1890, replaces the original gabled doorway. From the angle between the south aisle and the

Chancel two tall stepped buttresses rise to clasp a small lancetted drum turret with a small conical spire. This has diminutive lucarnes and is banded with red sandstone and incised ornament, weather-vane at summit. Square ended chancel 2 bays, with 2 light decorated window

between buttresses per bay. Tall slated roofs with ornamental tiled ridge and cross-finials at gables.

INTERIOR: good contemporary furnishings including sculptured reredos carved and signed by James Forsyth with scenes depicting Moses striking rock for water, Israelites collecting manna, and at centre Agony in Garden. Chancel ceiling has fine stencilled decoration. Stained glass by Douglas Strachan 1940s.

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